09 November 2024
02 November 2024
Bitcoin in the News : 2024-10 Price
Next month I'll look at some of the options on the chart.
First, here's the chart for October.
The upper left corner shows the current price & percent change (daily?) and is updated frequently. The upper right corner shows 'USD' and offers a total of 15 currencies.
Above the chart:-
- '+' : 'Compare or add symbol'
- '1h' : choice of three time periods
- formula : 12 options for chart type; default is 'Baseline'
- 'fx indicators' : around 100 'Indicators & strategies'
Below the chart:-
- choice of six time periods; default = 1 day (?)
- calendar icon : 'go to' date [incl. 'custom range']
- UTC time, updated every second
- three toggles for % / log / auto
In the bottom left of the chart is a small 'TV' icon. It links to TradingView - Track All Markets (tradingview.com).
Listing the options is just a start. Discovering what they do is the next step. The 'custom range' feature on 'go to date' might have been useful for the earliest charts when I forgot to take a snapshot at the beginning of the month, e.g. Bitcoin in the News : 2024-06 Price (July 2024). And what about those chart types and indicators?
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[TBD]
12 October 2024
05 October 2024
Bitcoin in the News : 2024-09 Price
In last month's post Bitcoin in the News : 2024-08 Price (September 2024), I wrote,
At first I thought that the volume bars, coded green and red, correspond to a rising or falling price during that interval, but then I noticed some exceptions.
Since the exceptions are a small minority of the volume bars for a month, I now suspect that there is not perfect correspondence between the 24-hour periods covered by the price lines and those covered by the volume bars.
The small letters 'TV' in the lower left of the chart expand to 'Chart by TradingView'. Next month I'll look at some of the options on the chart.
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[TBD]
14 September 2024
07 September 2024
Bitcoin in the News : 2024-08 Price
This month I missed my self-imposed deadline and created the chart on the second day of the month.
...once again I missed the deadline by a day for this month.
Last month I also wrote,
Since this is the first month with the new chart look, I'm not sure what to look for. Maybe next month it will make more sense.
The top half of the chart is green and the bottom half is red. The price separating green and red is the midpoint between the highest price on the chart and the lowest point.
The volume bars at the bottom of the screen have no numeric quantities associated with them; they are all relative to each other. At first I thought that the volume bars, coded green and red, correspond to a rising or falling price during that interval, but then I noticed some exceptions.
For example, the bar corresponding to 9 August is red and the price indeed fell over that interval. The bar to its right, however, is green but the price also fell over its interval. Maybe next month I'll spot the real meaning of green and red volume bars.
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[TBD]
10 August 2024
03 August 2024
Bitcoin in the News : 2024-07 Price
Next month I'll try to create the chart on the first day of the new month.
This month I missed my self-imposed deadline and created the chart on the second day of the month.
Since this is the first month with the new chart look, I'm not sure what to look for. Maybe next month it will make more sense.
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[TBD]
13 July 2024
06 July 2024
Bitcoin in the News : 2024-06 Price
This month, due to circumstances beyond my control, this post is actually being written two weeks after the date of the post.
At that time, I used a red line to mark the end of the month. Sounds simple, but I had a second problem. The source of the chart, Cointelegraph.com, changed its charting service to something completely different. Instead of being able to choose the start and end dates, it now offers six fixed time periods. Since the choice of one month wasn't an option, I used one year and added red lines to mark the beginning and end of June 2024.
The result isn't elegant, but it has all the info I like to capture. Next month I'll try to create the chart on the first day of the new month.
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[TBD]
08 June 2024
01 June 2024
11 May 2024
04 May 2024
13 April 2024
06 April 2024
09 March 2024
02 March 2024
10 February 2024
03 February 2024
13 January 2024
Bitcoin in the News : 2023 Full Year & 2023-12 More++
The first half of the post will be the annual composite chart showing the bitcoin price charts for all 12 previous months.
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[TBD]
06 January 2024
Bitcoin in the News : 2023-12 Price
Last month's price post, Bitcoin in the News : 2023-11 Price (December 2023), was the third such consecutive post where the making of the chart was nearly as noteworthy as the chart itself. I wrote,
I'll ask the same question: What will next month bring?
This month the chart is almost back to its earlier, pre-September, format. The only discrepancy I noticed was when I tried to look at charts from previous months, November etc. The chart would not let me set its end date earlier than 29 December.
For the next post I'll do a price summary of the year 2023. It appears to have been a very good year for bitcoin, with the possible exception of a certain chart service. To be confirmed.